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Dancer, pedagogue and creator, who develops her work from Bilbao.

Over the last 20 years Matxalen has been heavily invested in cultivating her own specific vocabulary and in deepening her personal approach to Dance. She continues to rigorously and methodically insist on her concerns and on forging a coherent path into research. Her specific spheres of interest being the body, movement, the uniqueness of both, the “in between” (in terms of negative space and punctuation of Time) as well as Space/Time organization more generally.
Her works offer the viewer fragility and strength, security and vulnerability, intimacy and daring. Abstraction charged with humanity, they are a play on logic and challenge of accessibility.

Matxalen Bilbao has a Diploma in Basic Education, Human Sciences, from the University of País Vasco and in 2007-2008 obtained her Master in Arts and Sciences (UPV) in Theatre/ Live Performance.
Open to collaboration, she has worked for varied companies within the Basque Country and throughout Spain. In 2006 she was invited by Ana Valles, Director of the “Matarile” Company, to take part in the show “Illa Reunion” (a production of the Galician Centro Dramático). From 2015 to 2017 she  collaborated with the Compañía Traversée de Biarritz. She directed the dance piece BIRAKA by Nerea Martínez which premiered at the BAD Festival 2017, has been resident choreographer in the ATALAK 2.0 project for Dantza Konpainia (February 2018), created urban dance piece Fugas (Award for Best Dance Choreography 2018 in La Danza Inunda Santander within the Festival La Espiral Contemporánea) She was Choreographer of the play MI TERCER ACTO by Eguzki Zubia which premiered at the BAD Festival 2019, of the show GETXOKOISLAK/Reflejos de Getxo (for the Inauguration of Muxikebarri in November 2019) Again she was  Choreographer for Cía KALE (Oporto) within the Framework Regards Croisés/Miradas Cruzadas Festival, March 2020, and 2021 she was  invited by the cross-border network of choreographic creation ATALAK (by Dantzaz Konpainia and Malandain Ballet Biarritz) to broadcast the piece AMARRAK created within the ATALAK 2.0 project with the students of the Conservatory Maurice Ravel of Bayonne. She was also responsible for the artistic direction of the piece HUG by Nerea Martínez, which  premiered at BAD 2021